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The excerpt left it out, but this was the first 1-0 game with a first pitch home run since Pete Rose did it in 1963. That was also the first baseball game I remember watching. I woke up on the couch at my house after flying of my bike in a last ditch effort to win a race into my friends driveway (he was in the street and I was on the sidewalk). My only concussion, but I remember Pete Rose's home run, although I did not see the rest of the game since they did not have it on at the hospital.

The final score was not 1-0, but when Adam Rosales led off versus CC Sabathia at Yankee Stadium, he lined a first pitch fastball into the left field stands and did his usual home run sprint... which must have been one of the quickest runs ever scored at the beginning of a baseball game.